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C Gray

Publications and source records attributed to C Gray.

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PubMed1979

Some effects of piracetam (UCB 6215, Nootropyl) on chronic schizophrenia.

A study is described of effects of a nootropic drug on chronic schizophrenia. The nootropic drugs act on the central nervous system with the cerebral cortex as their target. Chronic schizophrenic patients on the drug showed improvement in object naming and in tests where the patient was required to indicate the number of times he had been tapped. Improvements were also noted in learning and memory tasks. In dichotic listening the patients showed a reduction in the amount of incorrect verbal responses produced. There were no improvements in symptom rating or social behaviour rating. These results suggest some cognitive improvement but little if any change in the disease state of the patient.

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PubMed1979

Antenatal detection of fetal A-V dissociation utilizing real-time B-mode ultrasound.

Congenital heart block is an unusual cause of fetal bradycardia. Until recently, the diagnosis could be confirmed only by evaluation of the fetal cardiac electrical activity. Two cases are reported in which the diagnosis of atrio-ventricular (A-V) dissociation was confirmed in the antepartum period by real-time ultrasound evaluation of cardiac mechanical activity.

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PubMed1979

Callosal transfer and left-hand anomia in schizophrenia.

The theory of callosal failure in schizophrenia is examined using the test for left-hand anomia. It is argued that if the corpus callosum is affected in schizophrenia with consequent difficulty of transmission between the two sides of the brain, a greater number of left-hand errors should be found in producing the names of objects held by that hand because the speech area of the left hemisphere is no longer available for the description of the perceptions of the left hand. The findings support this view and they confirm the communication failures of the brain related to callosal disturbance.

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